Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students - Hardcover

Crowley, Sharon; Hawhee, Debra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321172760 ISBN 13: 9780321172761

Verlag: Pearson, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. This is a fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. It shows that rhetoric, as it was practiced and taught by the ancients, was an intrinsic part of daily life and of communal discourse about current events. This book gives special emphasis to classic strategies of invention, devoting separate chapters to stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning. The authors' engaging discussion and their many contemporary examples of ancient rhetorical principles present rhetoric as a set of flexible, situational practices. This practical history draws the most relevant and useful concepts from ancient rhetorics and discusses, updates, and offers them for use in the contemporary composition classroom.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0321172760
• ISBN 13: 9780321172761
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 462
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